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3 unusual facts about Lew Leslie


Lew Leslie

For Blackbirds of 1928 they wrote ‘Baby!’, ‘Dixie’ and ‘Here Comes My Blackbird’, and while these had little life outside the show the same cannot be said for others that became popular: ‘Diga Diga Doo’, ‘Doin’ The New Low-Down’, ‘I Must Have That Man’ and what became a perennial favourite, I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby.

On 9 May 1928, the show transferred to the Liberty Theatre, Broadway and was re-titled Blackbirds of 1928.

At first, these revues were only moderately successful but they paved the way for Blackbirds of 1928.


Flournoy Earkin Miller

Miller also starred in the 1930 version of Lew Leslie's Blackbirds on Broadway, and in the all-black Western Harlem on the Prairie (1937).


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